
Jacob Kushner
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Even better: Check out the competition! I'm in good company, with incredible reporting by Ryan Lenora Brown for The Dial Magazine Dana Hourany on Lebanon's lost villages, & Forbidden Stories for investigating Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza. One World Media oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/shortli…


Honored to be shortlisted for the One World Media Print Award for my 8-year Haiti investigation, An Unnatural Disaster, along with Allison Shelley and Deuce Read it: Haiti.longlead.com Long Lead with support from the Pulitzer Center Tobias M oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/shortli…


Congratulations to M.A. Columbia Journ alum and Visiting Professor Jacob Kushner (MA Politics '13), whose Long Lead/Pulitzer Center story "Haiti: An Unnatural Disaster" is shortlisted for the 2025 One World Media One World Media Print Award. haiti.longlead.com

"In Pinellas County, Florida, a man on trial for killing an attorney told a judge he needed more time to find legal representation." Harper's Magazine harpers.org/2025/05/weekly…

1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books. Congrats to my mentor, and colleague, Sam Freedman on an incredible career. Great writeup by Emma Goldberg nytimes.com/2025/05/25/boo… Columbia Journalism School

‘You Leave with Nothing’: Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision. Read this urgent piece by my M.A. Columbia Journ student (now alumna 👩🎓) Béatrice Vallières: documentedny.com/2025/06/05/hai…

For The Dial, I blurbed The Lucky Ones, by Zara Chowdhary. Check out all of The Dial's Best Books of Summer 2025: thedial.world/summer-reading… The Dial Magazine


As Kenya’s protests intensified, two friends bled on opposite sides. Katharine Houreld The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/… "Young Kenyans continue to risk their lives in protests over corruption and police brutality. Others are being recruited as “goons” to menace the protesters."

Misplaced Bodies and Mishandled Funds: recent Columbia Journalism graduate Tanya Raghu on the Repatriation of Deceased Immigrants, for Documented with editing by Clarissa A. León documentedny.com/2025/07/25/mis… Columbia Journalism School





Huge thanks to Columbia Journalism School & M.A. Columbia Journ for its enormous role in shaping my early career—and my mid career, too!

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence - For Hammer & Hope Nanjala Nyabola chronicles Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto, PhD's murderous regime: hammerandhope.org/article/kenya-…

Israel has now killed at least 184 journalists in Palestine--at least 26 in deliberate assassinations, according to Committee to Protect Journalists For Columbia Journalism Review, here's what nearly two dozen journalists and human rights experts say we must do. cjr.org/feature/urgen-… Columbia Journalism School Azmat Khan